What’s on Tuesday

11 P.M. (Reelz) THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS (1989) The brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges play Frank and Jack Baker, a two-piano lounge act. They’re proud of never having held a day job, despite an awful stage wardrobe, an even worse repertory and rock-bottom morale. Then a club owner offers to pay off their contract if they will agree not to play. Michelle Pfeiffer, above with Jeff Bridges, is Susie Diamond, who helps the guys reinvent themselves as a trio. Writing in The New York Times, Janet Maslin called this film, from the director Steve Kloves, a “slow, teasing, rapturously moody romance.”

2:05 P.M. (HBO Signature) PAUL (2011) He looks like any other extraterrestrial, with his otherworldly cast, bald bobble head, big eyes and stick limbs. Until you get to the board shorts and the backpack. In other words, Paul, voiced by Seth Rogen and the title character of this comedy from Greg Mottola, is a little green dude. And he comes in peace, man, despite causing havoc while he tries to phone home. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the best friends, fresh from a Comic-Con convention in San Diego, who run into Paul as they guide their recreational vehicle toward Area 51, the military base in Nevada where the conspiracy-minded think the government stashes aliens. Jason Bateman is one of the men in black hunting Paul; Kristen Wiig is the love interest who wears a T-shirt depicting Jesus blowing away Darwin; and John Carroll Lynch is her daddy, a member of the Bible and gun club. “As genial, foolish and demographically engineered as it sounds (hailing all fan boys and girls), ‘Paul’ is at once a buddy flick and a classic American road movie of self- (and other) discovery, interspersed with buckets of expletives and some startling (especially for a big-studio release) pokes at Christian fundamentalism,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.

8 P.M. (Ovation) THE SCAPEGOAT (2012) Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, this film, written and directed by Charles Sturridge, stars Matthew Rhys as John Standing, a prep school teacher of Greek in 1952 Britain. He steps into the shoes of a man of privilege who is his mirror image and suddenly finds himself responsible for a young wife, two mistresses, a morphine-abusing mother, a precocious daughter, a dilapidated if stately home and a bankrupt business.

9 P.M. (BBC America) RAMSAY BEHIND BARS Gordon Ramsay, right, volunteers to be locked up in Brixton Prison in South London, where he’ll teach prisoners to cook and sell their food to the outside through a catering company — and in the process contribute to the cost of their own incarcerations.

9 P.M. (E!) THE REAL 50 SHADES OF GREY Alicia Quarles speaks with therapists, authors and couples about the nontraditional sexual practices portrayed in E. L. James’s best seller “Fifty Shades of Grey.” On OWN at 10, “Our America With Lisa Ling” investigates the world of bondage, discipline and sadomasochism depicted in the novel.

10 P.M. (Cinemax) BLUE VELVET (1986) David Lynch probes a murder in Lumberton — “the town that knows how much wood a woodchuck chucks,” and where the sound of the falling timber tells you the time — in this surreal foray into suburbia for which he received a best director Oscar nomination. Kyle MacLachlan plays Jeffrey Beaumont, the film’s hero, who discovers a severed ear lying in tall grass and begins tracing its origin. That leads to a detective (George Dickerson) and his curious daughter (Laura Dern), who says she “hears things — bits and pieces” about the item in question. Isabella Rossellini, above, is the torch singer who becomes the object of Jeffrey’s desire, and Dennis Hopper is the resident psycho. “For those with the temerity to follow it anywhere, ‘Blue Velvet’ is as fascinating as it is freakish,” Janet Maslin wrote in The Times. “It confirms Mr. Lynch’s stature as an innovator, a superb technician and someone best not encountered in a dark alley.”

10 P.M. (13, 49) THE UNTOUCHABLES “Frontline” investigates why the leaders of Wall Street have escaped prosecution for their role in the country’s financial meltdown.

10 P.M. (ABC) PRIVATE PRACTICE The series ends as Dr. Naomi Bennett (Audra McDonald) returns to Seaside Health and Wellness to stand by the side of Addison (Kate Walsh) at her wedding to Jake (Benjamin Bratt). Cooper (Paul Adelstein), meanwhile, grapples with the responsibilities of being a stay-at-home father. And Violet (Amy Brenneman) accepts a project with personal meaning. KATHRYN SHATTUCK

Correction:Jan. 22, 2013

An earlier version of the entry for “The Real 50 Shades of Grey” omitted the network on which “Our America With Lisa Ling” is shown. It is OWN.